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50852 kit [[English]] ipa :/kɪt/[Anagrams] edit - ITK, ikt, tik [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.[1]The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century. [Etymology 2] editA short form of kitten and/or kitling. From the 16th century (spelled kytte, kitt).From the 19th century also extended to other young animals (mink, fox, beaver, muskrat, etc.), and to a species of small fox ("kit-fox"). Later usage (for other animals) perhaps influenced by chit. [Etymology 3] edit16th century, perhaps from cithara. [Etymology 4] editBorrowed from German kitte, Kütte (“flock of doves”) (circa 1880). [[Crimean Tatar]] [Etymology] editFrom Russian кит (kit). [Noun] editkit 1.whale (Cetacea) [References] edit - Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN [[Danish]] [Etymology 1] editFrom German Kitt (“putty”). [Etymology 2] editFrom English kit (1980). [[Dutch]] ipa :-ɪt[Anagrams] edit - tik [Etymology 1] editOf unknown origin. Possibly borrowed from the dialectal German Kietze (“carrying basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-. The German word has also appeared as Kötze, from Middle High German *kœzze, from Proto-Germanic *kut-, which would be related to the root of kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.[1] [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from German Kitt. [Etymology 3] editBorrowed from English kit. [References] edit 1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Kotze”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891 [[French]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English kit. [Further reading] edit - “kit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editkit m (plural kits) 1.kit (to assemble) [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈkit][Etymology] editki +‎ -t [Pronoun] editkit 1.accusative singular of ki Kit ajánl? ― Whom would you recommend? Kit érdekel? ― Who cares? [[Jehai]] [Noun] editkit 1.buttocks kit tɔm : mouth of the river (literally: buttocks [of the] river) [References] edit - Niclas Burenhult, A grammar of Jahai (2005) [[Nobiin]] [Alternative forms] edit - ⲕⲓⲧ (kit) [Noun] editkit 1.mountain [[Nzadi]] [Further reading] edit - Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN [Noun] editkít (plural kít) 1.chair [[Polish]] ipa :/kit/[Etymology 1] editBorrowed from German Kitt, from Middle High German küt, küte, from Old High German kuti, quiti, kwiti, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [Further reading] edit - kit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN - kit in Polish dictionaries at PWN [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈki.t͡ʃi/[Etymology] editUnadapted borrowing from English kit. [Noun] editkit m (plural kits) 1.kit (collection of items needed for a specific purpose) Synonym: jogo 2.kit (collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble) [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from English kit. [Noun] editkit n (plural kituri) 1.kit [[Serbo-Croatian]] [Etymology] editFrom Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos). [Noun] editkȉt m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏т) 1.whale [[Slovene]] ipa :/kíːt/[Etymology 1] editFrom Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos). [Etymology 2] editFrom German Kitt (“putty”). [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈkit/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English kit. [Further reading] edit - “kit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editkit m (plural kits) 1.kit Synonym: (kit) equipo [[Tok Pisin]] [Noun] editkit 1.putty [[Turkmen]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Russian кит (kit), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos). [Noun] editkit (definite accusative kidi, plural kitler) 1.whale 0 0 2021/07/01 17:20 2023/10/11 09:23 TaN
50854 unearth [[English]] ipa :/ʌnˈɜː(ɹ)θ/[Anagrams] edit - haunter, nauther, unheart, urethan [Etymology] editun- +‎ earth [References] edit - “unearth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. [Verb] editunearth (third-person singular simple present unearths, present participle unearthing, simple past and past participle unearthed) 1.To drive or draw from the earth. to unearth a fox or a badger 2.To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment Synonyms: bring to light, disclose, unfold to unearth a secret 3.To dig up. 4.1971, R. C. Majumdar, “Medicine”, in A Concise History of Science in India‎[1], New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, published 1989, →OCLC, page 261: Modern archaeological excavations have unearthed the remains of a large number of ancient cities that lay buried deep under the sands for more than a thousand years, along the trade route from Bactria to China passing between the Tien Shan mountains in the north and the desert of Taklamakan in the south. 5.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry: Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed. 6.For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unearth. 0 0 2021/09/24 13:30 2023/10/11 09:33 TaN
50856 private equity [[English]] [Noun] editprivate equity (countable and uncountable, plural private equities) 1.An investment fund that specializes in buying companies in order to restructure and then sell them with a profit. Synonym: PE 2.2021 August 4, Jasper Jolly, “Spain’s La Liga agrees €2.7bn deal with private equity firm CVC”, in The Guardian‎[1]: Spain’s La Liga has agreed a €2.7bn (£2.3bn) deal with CVC that could see private equity involved in the running of a large European football league for the first time. 3.2022 February 15, Nina Lakhani, “Private equity’s dirty dozen: the 12 US firms funding dirty energy projects”, in The Guardian‎[2]: American private equity tycoons are profiteering from the global climate crisis by investing in fossil fuels that are driving greenhouse gas emissions, a new investigation reveals. 4.2022 July 7, “Private equity may be heading for a fall”, in The Economist‎[3], →ISSN: This was driven by a scramble for yield among pension funds, insurance companies and endowments during a decade of historically low interest rates in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-09. Many have more than doubled their allocations to private equity. 0 0 2021/08/01 15:26 2023/10/11 16:35 TaN
50857 equity [[English]] ipa :/ˈɛk.wɪ.ti/[Alternative forms] edit - æquity, equitie (both obsolete) [Etymology] editFrom Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”). Doublet of equality. [Noun] editequity (countable and uncountable, plural equities) 1.Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". Antonyms: inequity, iniquity 2.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2: Sufficeth what they in their graue wiſedoomes ſhall proſcribe, I in no ſorte will ſeeke to acquite, nor preſumptuouſly attempte to diſpute againſt the equity of their iudgementes, but humble and proſtrate appeale to their mercies. 3.(law) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England 1.(law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so. 2.1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592. A Court of equity knows its own province. 3.1851, Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards in Birch v. Joy (1851), 3 H. L. C. 598: "A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience." 4.1848-55, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England, Chapter IX: Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application. 5.(law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim. 6.1999, In Re Fitzgerald, 237 B.R. 252, 261 (Bkrtcy. D.Conn. 1999): "...the mortgagor retains ‘equitable title’ or the ‘equity of redemption’….The equity of redemption permits the mortgagor to regain legal title to the mortgaged property upon satisfying the conditions of the mortgage..." 7.1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law: The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity 8.(law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.(finance) Various senses related to net value 1.(law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances. Hyponym: home equity I have a lot of equity in my house. 2.(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business. Hyponyms: stock, shares 3.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 4.(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets. 5.(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.(nonstandard) Equality - 2020 July 22, Ben Bradley, “Low-income Families: Equity of Opportunity”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)‎[1], column 2139: What steps the Government are taking to help ensure equity of opportunity for people from low-income families. 0 0 2020/06/23 07:22 2023/10/11 16:35 TaN
50858 borrowing [[English]] [Noun] editborrowing (countable and uncountable, plural borrowings) 1.An instance of something being borrowed. 2.January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […] 3.(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword. [Verb] editborrowing 1.present participle and gerund of borrow She is borrowing my pen. 2.(slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting. 0 0 2022/04/11 13:18 2023/10/11 16:36 TaN
50859 dwindle [[English]] ipa :/ˈdwɪn.dəl/[Anagrams] edit - windled [Etymology] editFrequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwinen, from Old English dwīnan (“to waste away”), itself from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine +‎ -le, akin to Old Norse dvena,[1] dvína,[2][3] Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”). [References] edit 1. ^ Dictionary entry of the alternative spelling 2. ^ “dwindle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.: "akin to ... Icel. dvína to cease" 3. ^ dwindle in Merriam Webster's dictionary : "akin to Old Norse dvīna to pine away" [Verb] editdwindle (third-person singular simple present dwindles, present participle dwindling, simple past and past participle dwindled) 1.(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. Synonyms: peter out, (figuratively) spin down, trail off 2.1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […] 3.(intransitive, figurative) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. 4.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 132, column 1: VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […] 5.1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 44: Religious Societies, though begun with excellent Intention, and by Perſons of true Piety, have dwindled into factious Clubs; […] 6.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter III, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, →OCLC: The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation. 7.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress: The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen. 8.2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎[1]: [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place. Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets. 9.(transitive) To lessen; to bring low. 10.1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC: Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought. 11.To break up or disperse. 12.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC: there were only five hundred foot and three hundred horse left with him, for the blocking of Plymouth; the rest were dwindled away 0 0 2020/11/09 17:36 2023/10/11 16:36 TaN
50860 Route __ [[English]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French Route, or a variant spelling of Routt. [Further reading] edit - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Route”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. [Proper noun] editRoute (plural Routes) 1.A surname from French. [[German]] ipa :/ˈʁuːtə/[Etymology] edit17th century, from French route. [Further reading] edit - “Route” in Duden online [Noun] editRoute f (genitive Route, plural Routen) 1.route 0 0 2023/10/11 16:36 TaN
50861 deadliest [[English]] [Adjective] editdeadliest 1.superlative form of deadly: most deadly The black mamba is one of the deadliest snakes. 0 0 2023/09/02 14:11 2023/10/12 08:46 TaN
50862 embroil [[English]] ipa :/ɪmˈbɹɔɪl/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French embrouiller. [Verb] editembroil (third-person singular simple present embroils, present participle embroiling, simple past and past participle embroiled) 1.To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved. Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights. 2.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: the royal house embroil'd in civil war 3.2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair‎[1]: Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen. 4.2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman‎[2]: He hated the idea of being manipulated by the film industry and was regularly embroiled in lawsuits. 5.To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. 6.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: The Christian antiquities at Rome […] are so embroiled with fable and legend. 0 0 2023/10/12 08:48 TaN
50864 fleeting [[English]] ipa :/ˈfliːtɪŋ/[Adjective] editfleeting (comparative more fleeting, superlative most fleeting) 1.Passing quickly; of short duration. Synonyms: transient, ephemeral; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral 2.1931, Martha Kinross, “The Screen — From This Side”, in The Fortnightly, volume 130, page 511: Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen. 3.2003, Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, pages 34–35: During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere. 4.2008, Barbara L. Bellman, Susan Goldstein, Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-Up Women on How to Find Love Again, iUniverse, published 2008, →ISBN, page 12: For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms. 5.2010, Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 5: And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world. [Etymology] editFrom Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. [Verb] editfleeting 1.present participle and gerund of fleet 0 0 2023/10/16 08:46 TaN
50865 entertainment [[English]] ipa :/ˌɛn.tə(r)ˈteɪn.mənt/[Alternative forms] edit - entretainment (chiefly archaic) - intertainment (archaic) [Anagrams] edit - entretainment [Etymology] editFrom Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain.Morphologically entertain +‎ -ment [Further reading] edit - “entertainment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “entertainment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “entertainment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [Noun] editentertainment (countable and uncountable, plural entertainments) 1.An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games. 2.1957, William O. Douglas, Roth v. United States: The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment. 3.A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others. 4.(obsolete) Maintenance or support. 5.1854?, Charles Dickens, The Seven Poor Travellers: "This," said the matronly presence, ushering me into a low room on the right, "is where the Travellers sit by the fire, and cook what bits of suppers they buy with their fourpences." "O! Then they have no Entertainment?" said I. For the inscription over the outer door was still running in my head, and I was mentally repeating, in a kind of tune, "Lodging, entertainment, and fourpence each." 6.(obsolete) Admission into service; service. 7.1601-1608, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well: He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. 8.(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages. 9.1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued: The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. 10.(obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers. 11.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]: I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold Can in this desert place buy entertainment, Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed. 12.1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar‎[1], London, page 61: Tho’ they cut [the beef] into long Pieces, (like Ropes) with the Hide; and dress’d, and eat it half-roasted according to their Custom, and gave it me in the same Manner; yet I thought this contemptible Food, and what a Beggar in England would not have touch’d, the most delicious Entertainment I ever met with. 0 0 2021/06/25 12:54 2023/10/16 09:04 TaN
50866 closure [[English]] ipa :/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/[Anagrams] edit - Clouser, colures [Etymology] editFrom Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Late Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close. [Noun] editclosure (countable and uncountable, plural closures) 1.An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. 2.A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period. 3.A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing. 4.(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope. 5.(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property. 6.(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set. 7.1955 [Van Nostrand Reinhold], John L. Kelley, General Topology, 2017, Dover, page 42, The closure ( T {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {T}}} -closure) of a subset A of a topological space ( X , T ) {\displaystyle (X,{\mathfrak {T}})} is the intersection of the members of the family of all closed sets containing A. […] 7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points. 8.The act of shutting; a closing. the closure of a door, or of a chink 9.The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily. The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead. 10.1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765: Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried. 11.2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48: Despite the line proving to be a useful strategic route for men and supplies to the British naval fleets stationed at Scapa Flow in both world wars, the Duke's legacy looked to have passed into history when it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching report. 12.That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. 13.1729 November 28, Alexander Pope, Letter to Jonathan Swift, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284, I admire on this consideration your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever, manifesting the utter openness of the writer. 14.(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure. 15.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]: O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death. 16.(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. 17.(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. Wp 18.The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels. 19.2009, Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith, The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture, page 166: The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels. 0 0 2020/05/14 09:24 2023/10/16 09:05 TaN
50867 trafficked [[English]] [Adjective] edittrafficked (not comparable) 1.Carrying traffic; subject to traffic. 2.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 114: Possessed of many thinly trafficked lines and dual-purpose assignments for engines, CPR commonsensically employed Pacifics as all-purpose engines, bought 4-6-2's until dieselization. 3.2004, C. Saiz-Jimenez, Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 202: The questionnaire was mainly referred to the white marble and was carried out at two sites, the more soiled North façade (FN), very trafficked area and the cleaner South façade (FS) (pedestrian area). 4.2016, Irv Bauer, Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 158: We see a very trafficked big cross in Roma. Cars and people running everywhere. Camera holds on Emma standing on the pavement, like a statue, alone with her big suitcase. 5.2018, Jonathan Moeller, Sevenfold Sword: Serpent, Azure Flame Media Likely this portion of the causeway was far more trafficked than the more remote regions. 6.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48: In a somewhat relieved tone, he shows that the heaviest trafficked routes for freight also happen to be the busiest passenger routes, enabling a concentration of services to use a small number of lines. [Etymology] edittraffic +‎ -ed. [Verb] edittrafficked 1.simple past and past participle of traffic 2.simple past and past participle of traffick 0 0 2022/07/15 17:48 2023/10/16 09:05 TaN
50868 traffick [[English]] [Etymology] editUse of this spelling for the verb in relation to illegal trafficking is probably influenced by the spelling of the noun trafficking. [Noun] edittraffick (uncountable) 1.Archaic spelling of traffic. 2.1743, Pieter de la Court, Political Maxims of the State of Holland, page 29: Tho' it is evident by our histories, that in many cities in Holland great quantities of manufactures were made, when all the European traffick and navigation was mostly driven by the Easterlings and Hans-Towns, and before fishing, traffick, and freighting of ships were settled in these provinces […] 3.1776, James Stewart, The Total Refutation and Political Overthrow of Doctor Price: When I take a cursory survey of this great METROPOLIS and its populous ENVIRONS, I cannot help venturing a conjecture, that the sum total of its internal traffick amounts to one million a day of which the actual manufacture from raw or rough materials must arise to a considerable proportion. 4.1806 December 20, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 10, page 989: It does, some persons tell us, do no good, while, on the other hand, it renews in our shocked sight scenes which it is not necessary for me to describe in detail, a traffick, which, for the sake of the liberty of the press, may as well be nameless here, though the reader will find it most circumstantially described in the former speeches of Mr. Grey, now Lord Howick. [Verb] edittraffick (third-person singular simple present trafficks, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked) 1.Alternative spelling of traffic (now especially of illegal goods) 2.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out on His Third Voyage; is taken by Pyrates. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 3–4: Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin. 3.1970, The Catholic University law review, volume 20, page 760: If an addict-possessor who trafficks in narcotics is to be prosecuted, and if these “time to time” acts constitute “trafficking,” then the Watson majority's possession exemption “will prove nearly meaningless […] 4.1982, Helen Daniel, Double agent: David Ireland and his work, page 159: The writer is also a double agent, who trafficks in perceptions and double-deals between circumstances and possibilities, present and future. 5.1986, The Southeastern Reporter, page 862: Appellant contends that the imposition of a fine is totally unauthorized as punishment for conspiracy to traffick in marijuana. 6.2003, Michael Jackson, Criminal law in Hong Kong, page 637: These offences include: (1) Section 129(1): this makes it an offence to traffick in persons to or from Hong Kong for the purpose of prostitution. 0 0 2022/07/15 17:48 2023/10/16 09:05 TaN
50871 grip [[English]] ipa :/ɡɹɪp/[Anagrams] edit - IGRP, PIRG, prig [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną. [Etymology 2] editFrom Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp). [Etymology 3] editFrom Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop. [[Albanian]] [Etymology] editProbably a modern loanword, from German Grippe. [Noun] editgrip m 1.flu, influenza [[Catalan]] ipa :/ˈɡɾip/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French grippe, from Frankish *grīpan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną. [Further reading] edit - “grip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “grip”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023 - “grip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “grip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [Noun] editgrip f (plural grips) 1.flu (influenza) [[Dutch]] ipa :/ɣrɪp/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English grip. [Noun] editgrip m (plural grippen, diminutive gripje n) 1.hold (to ensure control) [[Haitian Creole]] [Etymology] editFrom French grippe (“influenza”). [Noun] editgrip 1.influenza, flu [[Icelandic]] [Noun] editgrip 1.inflection of gripur: 1.indefinite accusative singular 2.indefinite dative singular [[Ladino]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from French grippe (“influenza”). [Noun] editgrip f (Latin spelling) 1.(medicine) influenza, flu [[Middle English]] [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Verb] editgrip 1.imperative of gripe [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Verb] editgrip 1.inflection of gripa: 1.present 2.imperative [[Romansch]] [Noun] editgrip m (plural grips) 1.rock [[Serbo-Croatian]] [Alternative forms] edit - grȉpa (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegro) [Noun] editgrȉp m (Cyrillic spelling гри̏п) 1.(Serbia) flu, influenza [[Swedish]] ipa :/ɡriːp/[Noun] editgrip c 1.griffin [Verb] editgrip 1.imperative of gripa [[Turkish]] ipa :/ɡɾip/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French grippe. [Noun] editgrip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler) 1.(pathology) flu, influenza, grippe [[Yola]] [Etymology] editFrom Middle English gripe (“grip”, rarely "sharp pain"), from Old English gripe, from Proto-West Germanic *gripi, from Proto-Germanic *gripiz.[1] [Noun] editgrip (plural gripès) 1.A twinge; a sharp pain.[2] [References] edit 1. ^ Raymond Hickey (1988), “A lost Middle English dialect”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 37), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 262 2. ^ Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 43 0 0 2023/10/16 09:12 TaN
50872 swallow [[English]] ipa :/ˈswɒl.əʊ/[Anagrams] edit - wallows [Etymology 1] editFrom Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swolȝen, swelwen, swelȝen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.The noun is from Middle English swelwe, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”). [Etymology 2] editEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:swallowWikipedia A red-rumped swallowFrom Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala. 0 0 2021/07/11 20:35 2023/10/16 09:14 TaN
50873 swallow up [[English]] [Verb] editswallow up (third-person singular simple present swallows up, present participle swallowing up, simple past and past participle swallowed up) 1.To completely enclose or envelop. 2.1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79: Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered. 3.To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate. 4.To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour. 0 0 2023/10/16 09:15 TaN
50874 Swallow [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - wallows [Etymology] edit - As an English surname, from the noun swallow (sense 2). - Also as an English surname, from Swallow in Lincolnshire, named after its river. The placename itself could be related to the verb swell, or related to the name of the river Swale. [Further reading] edit - Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Swallow”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. [Proper noun] editSwallow (countable and uncountable, plural Swallows) 1.A surname. 2.A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA1703). 0 0 2021/07/11 20:35 2023/10/16 09:15 TaN
50875 founding [[English]] ipa :/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/[Adjective] editfounding (not comparable) 1.Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded. The founding fathers of our country. [Anagrams] edit - fonduing [Noun] editfounding (plural foundings) 1.The establishment of something. the founding of the republic 2.2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism: Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa? [Verb] editfounding 1.present participle and gerund of found 2.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry. 0 0 2016/05/24 11:53 2023/10/16 09:16
50876 irrevocable [[English]] ipa :/ɪˈɹɛvəkəb(ə)l/[Adjective] editirrevocable (not comparable) 1.Unable to be retracted or reversed; final. 2.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]: Firm and irrevocable is my doom Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd. 3.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: I have talked thus to you, child, not to insult you for what is past and irrevocable, but to caution and strengthen you for the future. 4.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 61, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC: On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past. 5.2005 April 28, Samuel Abt, “Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 April 2014: Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably. [Etymology] editFrom Middle French [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin irrevocabilis; equivalent to ir- +‎ revoke +‎ -able. [[Catalan]] ipa :/i.rə.voˈka.blə/[Adjective] editirrevocable m or f (masculine and feminine plural irrevocables) 1.irrevocable Antonym: revocable [Etymology] editFrom ir- +‎ revocable. [Further reading] edit - “irrevocable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. [[Spanish]] ipa :/ireboˈkable/[Adjective] editirrevocable m or f (masculine and feminine plural irrevocables) 1.irrevocable [Etymology] editFrom Latin irrevocābilis. [Further reading] edit - “irrevocable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 0 0 2012/11/18 10:58 2023/10/16 14:58
50877 regional [[English]] ipa :/ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəl/[Adjective] editregional (not comparable) 1.Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. 2.Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. 3.Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body. 4.(Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns. 5.1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia‎[1], volume Issue 71, page 94: The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory. 6.2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors, Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia‎[2], page 03-1: The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia. 7.2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer′s Australia 2011‎[3], unnumbered page: HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks. [Anagrams] edit - Loegrian, geraniol [Etymology] editFrom Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis. [Noun] editregional (plural regionals) 1.An entity or event with scope limited to a single region. 2.1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item on regionals′ omnivorous market menu”, in Computerworld‎[4], page 125: In the CPE[Customer Premises Equipment] market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers. 3.2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis‎[5], page 44: Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million. 4.2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer′s Handbook‎[6], page 12: Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami […] [[Catalan]] ipa :/rə.ʒi.oˈnal/[Adjective] editregional m or f (masculine and feminine plural regionals) 1.regional [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis. [Further reading] edit - “regional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans. - “regional”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023 - “regional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. - “regional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. [[Crimean Tatar]] [Adjective] editregional 1.regional [References] edit - Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[7], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN [[German]] ipa :/ʁeɡi̯oˈnaːl/[Adjective] editregional (strong nominative masculine singular regionaler, not comparable) 1.regional [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis. [Further reading] edit - “regional” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache - “regional” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon - “regional” in Duden online [[Indonesian]] ipa :[reɡiˈonal][Adjective] editregional 1.regional 1.Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. 2.Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. [Etymology] editFrom Dutch regionaal, from French régional, from Latin regionalis. [Further reading] edit - “regional” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. [Synonyms] edit - (of specific region or district): kedaerahan - (of large geographic region): serantau (Standard Malay) [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Adjective] editregional (masculine and feminine regional, neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale) 1.regional [Etymology] editFrom French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis. [References] edit - “regional” in The Bokmål Dictionary. - “regional” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB). [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Adjective] editregional (neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale) 1.regional [Etymology] editFrom French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis. [References] edit - “regional” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Occitan]] [Adjective] editregional m (feminine singular regionala, masculine plural regionals, feminine plural regionalas) 1.regional [Alternative forms] edit - regionau (Gascon, Provençal) [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis. [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ʁe.ʒi.oˈnaw/[Adjective] editregional m or f (plural regionais) 1.regional (pertaining or limited to a specific region) [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis. [Further reading] edit - “regional” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa. [[Romanian]] [Adjective] editregional m or n (feminine singular regională, masculine plural regionali, feminine and neuter plural regionale) 1.regional [Etymology] editBorrowed from French régional. By surface analysis, regiune +‎ -al. [[Spanish]] ipa :/rexjoˈnal/[Adjective] editregional m or f (masculine and feminine plural regionales) 1.regional [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin regiōnālis. [Further reading] edit - “regional”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [[Swedish]] [Adjective] editregional (not comparable) 1.regional; pertaining to a region or regions [Anagrams] edit - logierna [Etymology] editregion +‎ -al [References] edit - regional in Svensk ordbok (SO) - regional in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) 0 0 2023/10/16 14:58 TaN
50878 underscore [[English]] ipa :/ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌskɔː(ɹ)/[Etymology] editFrom under- +‎ score. [Noun] editunderscore (plural underscores) 1.A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _. Synonyms: underline, low line 2.(music) A piece of background music. [See also] edit - underbarTypography - ampersand ( & ) - asterisk ( * ) and asterism ( ⁂ ) - at sign ( @ ) - backslash ( \ ) - bullet ( • ) - dagger ( † ‡ ) - degree symbol ( ° ) - number sign ( # ) - prime ( ′ ) - tilde ( ~ ) - underscore ( _ ) - vertical bar/pipe ( | ) [Verb] editunderscore (third-person singular simple present underscores, present participle underscoring, simple past and past participle underscored) 1.To underline; to mark a line beneath text. 2.2011, Matt Aimonetti, MacRuby: The Definitive Guide: Ruby and Cocoa on OS X, page 14: By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names. 3.To emphasize or draw attention to. I wish to underscore the importance of proper formatting. 4.1986, Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative: The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth. 0 0 2013/03/10 10:54 2023/10/16 14:58
50879 dampen [[English]] ipa :/ˈdæmpən/[Anagrams] edit - dampne, madnep [Etymology] editFrom damp +‎ -en. [Verb] editdampen (third-person singular simple present dampens, present participle dampening, simple past and past participle dampened) 1.(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet. 2.(intransitive) To become damp or moist. 3.(transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things). We won't let the bad news dampen our spirits. 4.1883 "Pomona's Daughter", Frank R. Stockton, in The Century, vol. XXVI, number 1, May, page 25 He was dreadfully familiar with everything, and talked about some places we were longing to see in a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm. 5.2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, in The New York Times: Pregnant women are 20 times as likely as other healthy young women to contract listeriosis, probably because in pregnancy the immune system is dampened to prevent rejection of the fetus. 6.2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, in BBC‎[1], London: BBC, retrieved 2020-05-22: The firm said changes in consumer behaviour had also dampened demand for the powder. 7.(transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).[usage 1] 8.(intransitive) To become damped or deadened. [[Danish]] [Noun] editdampen c 1.definite singular of damp [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈdɑmpə(n)/[Etymology 1] editFrom damp +‎ -en. The meaning “to vape” is a semantic loan from English. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Middle English]] [Verb] editdampen 1.Alternative form of dampnen [[Norwegian Bokmål]] [Noun] editdampen m 1.definite singular of damp [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] [Noun] editdampen 1.definite singular of damp 0 0 2012/10/27 17:40 2023/10/16 14:58
50880 hard [[English]] ipa :/hɑːd/[Adjective] edithard (comparative harder or more hard, superlative hardest or most hard) 1.(of material or fluid) Solid and firm. 2.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5: Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain. 1.Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut or penetrate. This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it. 2.(of drink or drugs) Strong. 3.(of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol. hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda 4.2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times‎[1]: Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening  […]. 5.(of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium. 6.(physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft). 7.(physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength). hard X-rays 8.(photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.(personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. 1.Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with. a hard problem;  a hard question;  a hard topic 2.1988, Edmund White, An Oracle: Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over. 3.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. 4.Demanding a lot of effort to endure. a hard life 5. 6. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. a hard master;  a hard heart;  hard words;  a hard character The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals. 7.1730, Henry Fielding, Rape upon Rape, act 4, scene 7: Leave off fornicating; leave the girls to the boys, and stand to thy bottle; it is a virtue becoming our years; and don’t be too hard on a wild honest young rake. 8.(dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful. 9.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC: The stag was too hard for the horse. 10.1716 March 23 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 24. Monday, March 12. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC: a power which will be always too hard for them 11.(military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences. a hard site 12.(slang) Tough, muscular, badass. He thinks he's well hard. 13.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108: I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.Unquestionable, unequivocal. hard evidence;  a hard requirement - 1796, The History of the Trial of Warren Hastings‎[2]: […] for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man. - 1962, The Selling Power of a Woman‎[3]: Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"! - 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian: Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.(of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle. At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.(slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis. I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.(bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.(phonetics, not comparable) Fortis. 1.Plosive. There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre". 2.Unvoiced. Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.(Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized. The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.(art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. 1.Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. 2.Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.(not comparable) 1.In a physical form, not digital. a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive 2.Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command. a hard reboot or reset(politics) Far, extreme. hard right, hard leftOf silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.(finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market. Antonym: soft - 2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries, page 7: Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […](of pornography) hardcore [Adverb] edithard (comparative harder, superlative hardest) 1.(manner) With much force or effort. He hit the puck hard up the ice. They worked hard all week. At the intersection, bear hard left. The recession hit them especially hard. Think hard about your choices. The couple were fucking each other hard. 2.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: […] My father / Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself; 3.1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: prayed so hard for mercy from the prince 4.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 164: I played hard, I drank hard, I rode hard, and did everything much on the same pattern. 5.1985, Michael A. Arbib, In search of the person: philosophical explorations in cognitive science, page 119: What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices? 6.(manner) With difficulty. His degree was hard earned. 7.(obsolete) So as to raise difficulties. 8.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC: The question is hard set. 9.(manner) Compactly. The lake had finally frozen hard. 10.(now archaic) Near, close. 11.c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii: The King your brother is now hard at hand, Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea. 12.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 18:7: […] whose house joined hard to the synagogue. 13.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 418: It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake. [Anagrams] edit - Dhar [Antonyms] edit - (resistant to pressure): soft - (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): easy, simple, straightforward, trite - (requiring a lot of effort to endure): bearable, easy - (severe): agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant - (unquestionable): controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable - (of drink): - (low in alcohol): low-alcohol - (non-alcoholic): alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic(of roads): soft(sexually aroused): soft, flaccid(phonetics, all senses): soft [Etymology] editFrom Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎‎ (xratu). [Noun] edithard (countable and uncountable, plural hards) 1.(countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. 2.1952, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu, Beaulieu, the Abbey, Palace House, and Buckler's Hard, page 36: The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […] 3.(countable, motor racing) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. 4.(uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine. 5.(uncountable, slang) Hard labor. The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard. [Synonyms] edit - (resistant to pressure): resistant, solid, stony, see also Thesaurus:hard - (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky - (requiring a lot of effort to endure): difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable - (severe): harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly - (unquestionable): incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable - (of drink): strong - See also Thesaurus:difficult [[Dutch]] ipa :/ɦɑrt/[Etymology 1] editFrom Middle Dutch hart, from Old Dutch hart, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz. [Etymology 2] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Etymology 3] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[French]] ipa :/aʁd/[Adjective] edithard (plural hards) 1.(of pornography) hardcore Des photos hards. Hardcore pictures. [Etymology] editBorrowed from English hard. [Noun] edithard m (plural hards) 1.hardcore pornography Le Journal du hard est une émission de Canal + dédiée au cinéma pornographique. Le Journal du hard ("Hard Porn News") is a broadcast by Canal+ dedicated to pornographic films. 2.hard rock Elle adore le hard et le headbang. She just loves hard rock and headbanging. 3.2004, Thomas Mansier, Identité du rock et presse spécialisée. Évolution d'une culture et de son discours critique dans les magazines français des années 90, page 98: Le hard semble ainsi capable de remplir le contrat originel du rock. As such, hard rock seems capable of fulfilling the original purpose of rock. 4.2014, Christian Eudeline, "Uriah Heep. Look At Yourself", in Du hard rock au métal. Les 100 albums cultes, Gründ (publ.). Au croisement du hard et du prog, Uriah Heep […] enregistre là son meilleur disque, pourtant, leurs paroles pseudo-lyriques et leurs envolées déplaisaient. At the crossroads of hard rock and prog rock, Uriah Heep […] records its best disc there; however, their pseudo-lyrical texts and their take-offs were disliked. [[Irish]] ipa :[haːɾˠd̪ˠ][Adjective] edithard 1.h-prothesized form of ard [[Middle English]] ipa :/hard/[Adjective] edithard 1.hard [Alternative forms] edit - harde [Etymology] editFrom Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz. [[Norwegian Bokmål]] ipa :/hɑːɾ/[Adjective] edithard (neuter singular hardt, definite singular and plural harde, comparative hardere, indefinite superlative hardest, definite superlative hardeste) 1.hard (not soft) 2.hard, stern, severe 3.hardy [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse harðr, from Proto-Germanic *harduz. [References] edit - “hard” in The Bokmål Dictionary. [[Norwegian Nynorsk]] ipa :/hɑːr/[Adjective] edithard (neuter hardt, definite singular and plural harde, comparative hardare, indefinite superlative hardast, definite superlative hardaste) 1.hard 2.hard, stern, severe 3.hardy [Etymology] editFrom Old Norse harðr, from Proto-Germanic *harduz. [References] edit - “hard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. [[Old Saxon]] [Adjective] edithard (comparative hardiro, superlative hardist) 1.hard [Etymology] editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī). [[Spanish]] [Adjective] edithard (invariable) 1.hard, heavy, hardcore [Etymology] editBorrowed from English hard. [[Yola]] [Adjective] edithard 1.hard 2.1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11: W' vengem too hard, he zunk ee commane, With venom too hard, he sunk his bat-club, [Etymology] editFrom Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī). [References] edit - Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 88 0 0 2009/04/13 09:52 2023/10/16 14:59 TaN
50881 limbic [[English]] [Adjective] editlimbic (not comparable) 1.(neuroanatomy) Relating to the limbic system. [Etymology] editFrom French limbique, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”). 0 0 2023/10/16 15:00 TaN
50883 sell off [[English]] [Verb] editsell off (third-person singular simple present sells off, present participle selling off, simple past and past participle sold off) 1.(transitive) To sell asset(s) for the purpose of getting rid of them quickly rather than for maximizing profit. 2.March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review] When Cyril goes searching for his deadbeat father, he’s also looking for his bike, and he’s devastated to discover his dad sold it off to make ends meet. 0 0 2023/10/06 16:52 2023/10/16 15:01 TaN
50885 analytical [[English]] ipa :/ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/[Adjective] editanalytical (comparative more analytical, superlative most analytical) 1.Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts an analytical experiment 2.Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic. an analytical mind [Etymology] editCompare with French analytique. See analysis. 0 0 2023/10/17 07:35 TaN
50886 burnout [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - outburn [Etymology] editFrom the verb phrase burn out. [Noun] editburnout (countable and uncountable, plural burnouts)English Wikipedia has an article on:burnoutWikipedia 1.(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career. 2.A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. 3.(US, slang) A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out. 4.2011 August 4, Stephen Holden, “Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN: Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want to sit next to on any bus trip, magical or not. 5.(aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor following the exhaustion of its fuel, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v. 6.The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power. 7.(automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber. [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈbøːnɑut/[Etymology] editFrom English burnout. [Further reading] edit - "burnout" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish). [Noun] editburnout 1.(psychology) burnout 0 0 2021/09/07 12:26 2023/10/17 09:19 TaN
50887 tipping [[English]] [Etymology] edittip +‎ -ing [Noun] edittipping (countable and uncountable, plural tippings) 1.The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity). 2.The act by which something is tipped or inclined. 3.2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd: Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial. 4.The dumping of rubbish. 5.(music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing. 6.(Australia) A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events. 7.2016 September 16, Danny Lannen, “Grovedale nursing home footy tips king taking it one season at a time”, in The Geelong Advertiser‎[1]: Cats fan Mr Burke received a handsome trophy from Balmoral Grove for his feat but is no stranger to cleaning up, having won the tipping at The Break three years in a row and also done well at The National Hotel. [Verb] edittipping 1.present participle and gerund of tip 0 0 2021/09/14 07:05 2023/10/17 09:19 TaN
50888 financier [[English]] ipa :/f(a)ɪˈnænsɪə/[Etymology] editBorrowed from French financier. [Noun] editFinanciers (teacake)financier (plural financiers) 1.A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions. 2.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 3.A company that does the same. 4.One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer. 5.1781, Edmund Burke, The Budget for the Year 1781: The English financier was obliged to raise new taxes to pay the interest of this immense sum ; the financier of France did no such thing 6.A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring. 7.2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 273: ‘Excuse me, can we order some fresh financiers? I know we haven’t finished our mains yet but we’re in rather a hurry.’ 8.A traditional French (Ragoût à la Financière) or Piemontese (Finanziera alla piemontese) rich sauce or ragout, made with coxcomb, wattles, cock's testicles, chicken livers and a variety of other ingredients. [Verb] editfinancier (third-person singular simple present financiers, present participle financiering, simple past and past participle financiered) 1.(transitive, intransitive) To carry out financial transactions; to finance something. 2.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard: So time crept on, and the day arrived when Sturk must pay his rent, or take the ugly consequences. The day before he spent in Dublin financiering. It was galling and barren work. [[Danish]] [Alternative forms] edit - finansier [Etymology] editFrom French financier. [Noun] editfinancier c (singular definite financieren, plural indefinite financiere) 1.(finance) financier Hyponyms: (male) finansmand, (female) finanskvinde [References] edit - “financier” in Den Danske Ordbog [[Dutch]] [Etymology 1] editBorrowed from French financier. [Etymology 2] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[French]] ipa :/fi.nɑ̃.sje/[Adjective] editfinancier (feminine financière, masculine plural financiers, feminine plural financières) 1.financial [Etymology] editFrom finance +‎ -ier. [Further reading] edit - “financier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editfinancier m (plural financiers, feminine financière) 1.financier (person) 2.financier (cake) Synonym: visitandine 3.banker 0 0 2023/10/17 10:11 TaN
50889 condemn [[English]] ipa :/kənˈdɛm/[Antonyms] edit - save - (to pronounce guilty): acquit [Etymology] editFrom Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem. [Further reading] edit - “condemn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - “condemn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. - “condemn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [Synonyms] edit - damn - (to pronounce guilty): convict [Verb] editcondemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned) 1.(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of. The president condemned the terrorists. 2.1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated‎[1], page 81: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are. 3.(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty. 4.(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence The judge condemned him to death. She was condemned to life in prison. 5.(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon. 6.(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation. The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire. 7.(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone. 8.(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption. 9.To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use. 10.1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425: There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned. 11.(transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain. 12.(transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service. 0 0 2022/03/08 10:56 2023/10/17 10:11 TaN
50890 alma [[English]] ipa :/ˈæl.mə/[Alternative forms] edit - almah [Anagrams] edit - Alam, Amal, amla, laam, lama [Etymology] editFrom colloquial Arabic عَالِمَة‎ (ʕālima, “singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning “learned, knowledgeable”, from عَلِمَ‎ (ʕalima, “to know”). [Noun] editalma (plural almas or alma) 1.An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner. [[Asturian]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin anima. [Noun] editalma f (plural almes) 1.soul [Synonyms] edit - ánima [[Azerbaijani]] ipa :/ɑɫˈmɑ/[Etymology 1] editInherited from Common Turkic *alma. [Etymology 2] edit [[Crimean Tatar]] [Alternative forms] edit - elma [Etymology] editFrom Common Turkic *alma. [Noun] editalma 1.apple [[Galician]] ipa :[ˈalmɐ][Alternative forms] edit - ialma [Etymology] editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima. The dialectal form ialma contains an antihiatic sandhi semi-vowel generated in the usual expression a alma, "the soul". Doublet of ánima. [Noun] editalma f (plural almas) 1.soul (of a living person) 2.1594, anonymous author, Entremés dos pastores: Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes. Oh, Xan, look, don't get sick, or sentence with malice; watch out, because you are losing the soul 3.(figurative) person Synonyms: cristiano, persoa 4.(figurative) health 5.(figurative) core, nucleus Synonym: cerne [References] edit - “alma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022. - “alma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018. - “alma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013. - “alma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG. - “alma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. [See also] edit - ánima [[Gallurese]] ipa :/ˈalma/[Alternative forms] edit - arma (La Maddalena)[1] [Etymology] editFrom Classical Latin arma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). [Noun] editalma f (plural almi) 1.weapon [References] edit 1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse, Editrice Taphros, →ISBN, page 73 [[Guinea-Bissau Creole]] [Etymology] editFrom Portuguese alma. Cognate with Kabuverdianu álma. [Noun] editalma 1.soul [[Hungarian]] ipa :[ˈɒlmɒ][Etymology 1] editFrom Common Turkic *alma. [Etymology 2] editalom (“litter, bedding”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) [Further reading] edit - alma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN - alma in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023) [[Italian]] ipa :/ˈal.ma/[Anagrams] edit - lama [Etymology 1] editProbably from Vulgar Latin *alima, dissimilated form of Latin anima[1] (compare Spanish and Portuguese alma); alternatively, a borrowing from Old Occitan[2] (compare Occitan anma, arma). Doublet of anima. [Etymology 2] editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “jump”). [Etymology 3] editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. [[Ladino]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin anima. [Noun] editalma f (Latin spelling, plural almas) 1.soul [[Latin]] [Adjective] editalma f 1.inflection of almus: 1.feminine nominative/vocative singular 2.neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural [References] edit - alma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) - “alma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly [[Leonese]] [Etymology] editInherited from Latin anima. [Noun] editalma f (plural almas) 1.soul [References] edit - AEDLL [[Mirandese]] [Etymology] editFrom Latin anima (“soul, breath”). [Noun] editalma f (plural almas) 1.soul [[Old Galician-Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈal̪.ma/[Etymology] editFrom Latin anima (“soul, breath”). [Noun] editalma f (plural almas) 1.soul 2.13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 26 (facsimile): e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay [Synonyms] edit - espirito [[Portuguese]] ipa :/ˈaw.mɐ/[Etymology] editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima (“soul, breath”). Doublet of anima, borrowed from the same source. [Noun] editalma f (plural almas) 1.soul 2.1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia: Ó sino da minha aldeia, / Dolente na tarde calma, / Cada tua badalada / Soa dentro da minha alma. Oh bell of my village, / Lazy in this peaceful afternoon, / Each one of your tollings / Resounds in my soul. [[Sassarese]] ipa :/ˈalma/[Noun] editalma f (plural almi) 1.(dialectal) Alternative form of àimma (“weapon”) [References] edit 1. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse, Editrice Taphros, →ISBN, page 73 [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈalma/[Adjective] editalma f 1.feminine singular of almo [Etymology] editInherited from Latin anima. Doublet of ánima, borrowed from the same source, or from Gothic 𐌰𐌷𐌼𐌰 (ahma). [Further reading] edit - “alma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editalma f (plural almas) 1.soul Synonym: ánima 2.(engineering) web (strip of material between flanges) [[Tagalog]] ipa :/ʔalˈma/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Spanish armar. [Noun] editalmá 1.rising of hind legs in violent protest, rage, or bad temper (as of horses) 2.(figurative) rising in violent protest or anger 3.(figurative) tantrum; fit of bad temper (as of a child) [[Turkish]] [Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] editFrom Ottoman Turkish آلما‎ (alma). [[Turkmen]] [Etymology] editFrom Common Turkic *alma. [Further reading] edit - “alma” in Enedilim.com - “alma” in Webonary.org [Noun] editalma (definite accusative almany, plural almalar) 1.apple 0 0 2023/10/17 10:12 TaN
50891 alma mater [[English]] ipa :/ˌælmə ˈmeɪtə(ɹ)/[Etymology] editFrom Latin alma māter (literally “nourishing mother”). Derives from the full name ("Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna") of the oldest European university, the University of Bologna, founded in 1088. [Noun] editalma mater (plural almae matres or alma maters) 1.A school, college or university from which an individual has graduated or which he or she has attended. 2.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58: I'm in the place where I grew up, where my alma mater is. 3.A school's anthem or song. [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˌɑl.maː ˈmaː.tɛr/[Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin alma māter (“feeding mother”). [Noun] editalma mater f (plural almae matres or alma maters) 1.alma mater (university one attended, especially one from which one has graduated) [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈal.ma ˈmaː.ter/[Noun] editalma māter f (genitive almae mātris); third declension 1.(Ancient Rome) mother goddess 2.(Medieval Christianity) Virgin Mary [[Portuguese]] [Etymology] editUnadapted borrowing from Latin alma māter. [Noun] editalma mater f (invariable) 1.a person who provides for another 2.homeland (place where one was born) 3.alma mater (school or college from which an individual has graduated) [[Spanish]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Latin alma māter. [Further reading] edit - “alma mater”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014 [Noun] editalma mater f (plural alma mater) 1.alma mater 0 0 2023/10/17 10:12 TaN
50892 Alma [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Alam, Amal, amla, laam, lama [Etymology 1] editUsually explained as Latin alma (“nourishing, kind”). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia. [Etymology 2] edit [[Danish]] [Proper noun] editAlma 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Dutch]] ipa :/ˈɑl.maː/[Etymology] edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) [Proper noun] editAlma n 1.A neighbourhood of Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands. [[Estonian]] [Proper noun] editAlma (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide]) 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Faroese]] [Proper noun] editAlma 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈɑlmɑ/[Anagrams] edit - lama [Etymology] editFrom Latin alma, but see also English Alma. [Proper noun] editAlma 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma 2.1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 44: —On tämä vähän hassua kun ei niistä tiedä mitään. —Nimet sentään. Jos jonkun nimi on Alma niin sen täytyy olla lihava. —It is a bit funny when you don't know anything of them. —Well, the name. If someone's Alma she's got to be fat. [[German]] [Proper noun] editAlma f (proper noun, genitive Alma) 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Latvian]] [Etymology] editFirst recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825 - 1850 . From Latin alma, and a contraction of Amālija. [Proper noun] editAlma f 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [References] edit - Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN - [1] Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010. [[Lithuanian]] [Proper noun] editAlma f 1.a female given name [[Norwegian]] [Proper noun] editAlma 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Romanian]] [Etymology] editBorrowed from Hungarian Almás, from almás (“apple tree grove”), from alma (“apple”). [Proper noun] editAlma f 1.A commune of Sibiu, Romania 2.A village in Alma, Sibiu, Romania [[Serbo-Croatian]] [Proper noun] editAlma 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Spanish]] ipa :/ˈalma/[Proper noun] editAlma f 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Swedish]] [Anagrams] edit - lama [Proper noun] editAlma c (genitive Almas) 1.a female given name, equivalent to English Alma [[Tagalog]] ipa :/ˈʔalma/[Etymology] editBorrowed from English Alma. [Proper noun] editAlma (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋ) 1.a female given name from English 0 0 2023/10/17 10:12 TaN
50893 ALMA [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Alam, Amal, alma, amla, laam, lama [Further reading] edit - ALMA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [Proper noun] editALMA 1.(astronomy) Abbreviation of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (a telescope in Chile) 0 0 2023/10/17 10:12 TaN
50894 convulse [[English]] ipa :/kənˈvʌls/[Etymology] editFrom Latin convulsus, past participle of convellere (“to pluck up, dislocate, convulse”), from com- (“together”) + vellere (“to pluck, pull”). Doublet of convel. [Verb] editconvulse (third-person singular simple present convulses, present participle convulsing, simple past and past participle convulsed) 1.(intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort. 2.1999, Mona Lee, Alien Child, page 278: He realized she was crying. He could feel her body convulsing with little sobs and her cheek was wet where it brushed his. 3.(intransitive, figurative) To be beset by political or social upheaval. 4.1988, Carroll Stuhlmueller, Rebuilding with Hope: A Commentary on the Books of Haggai and Zechariah, page 12: The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war. 5.(transitive) To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily. 6.1882, William Montgomery Clemens, Famous Funny Fellows: Brief Biographical Sketches of American Humorists, pages 28–29: But while he was convulsing all London with laughter, he was fast falling a victim to consumption. [[Italian]] [Adjective] editconvulse 1.feminine plural of convulso [[Latin]] ipa :/konˈu̯ul.se/[Participle] editconvulse 1.vocative masculine singular of convulsus [[Portuguese]] [Verb] editconvulse 1.inflection of convulsar: 1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive 2.third-person singular imperative 0 0 2010/09/12 00:01 2023/10/17 10:12
50895 coalition [[English]] ipa :/kəʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/[Alternative forms] edit - coälition (rare) [Anagrams] edit - coitional [Etymology] editBorrowed from Middle French coalition, from Medieval Latin coalitiō, coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus. [Noun] editcoalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions) 1.A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage. The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010. 2.2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013: At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky. 3.(rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs. 4.2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, “How cricket netted the hipsters”, in London Evening Standard: Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads. 5.2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, “Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her”, in The Daily Mail: Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs. 6.2015 June 11, “This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show”, in Bristol Post: This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough. [[French]] ipa :/kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃/[Alternative forms] edit - coälition (rare) [Etymology] editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”). [Further reading] edit - “coalition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. [Noun] editcoalition f (plural coalitions) 1.coalition 0 0 2010/03/31 09:40 2023/10/17 10:13 TaN
50896 Nova [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Avon, Vona [Etymology 1] editFrom Latin nova (“new”). [Etymology 2] editClipping of Nova Scotia. [Etymology 3] editAbbreviation of Northern Virginia. [[German]] [Noun] editNova 1.plural of Novum [[Italian]] [Etymology] editProbably a habitational surname from the town of Nova Milanese, in Lombardy. [Further reading] edit - Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015-2022 [Proper noun] editNova m or f by sense 1.a surname [[Swedish]] [Anagrams] edit - ovan [Etymology] editFrom Latin nova (“new”) in the 20th century. [Proper noun] editNova c (genitive Novas) 1.a female given name of modern usage 0 0 2022/10/18 09:19 2023/10/18 09:07 TaN
50897 Nova Scotia [[English]] ipa :/ˌnoʊ.və ˈskoʊ.ʃə/[Anagrams] edit - avocations [Etymology] editFrom Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scōtia (“Scotland”). [Proper noun] editNova Scotia 1.A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax. 2.A peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia. [[Finnish]] ipa :/ˈnoʋɑ ˈskou̯ʃɑ/[Etymology] edit< English Nova Scotia [Proper noun] editNova Scotia 1.Nova Scotia (a province in eastern Canada) [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈno.u̯a ˈskoː.ti.a/[Proper noun] editNova Scōtia f sg (genitive Novae Scōtiae); first declension 1.(New Latin) Nova Scotia 0 0 2022/10/18 09:19 2023/10/18 09:07 TaN
50898 Scotia [[English]] ipa :/ˈskoʊ.ʃə/[Anagrams] edit - Caitos, Sciota, catios, coatis [Proper noun] editScotia 1.(poetic) Scotland. 2.Nova Scotia 3.1958, “Scotiabank Timeline”, in Scotiabank Canada‎[1], retrieved 2023-06-20, page 2: 1958 - Scotia Plan Loans [...] The Bank of Nova Scotia becomes the first Canadian bank to promote lending to the average consumer. 4.2009, “I'm So Scotian”‎[2]performed by Hellafactz: Just listen how the flow sounds / And you gon' learn quick I represent Sco-town (Scotia) / Illville to be exact / Shout out to Uniacke / Straight up to North Preston and back 5.2023 June 20 (last accessed), Scotia Dental‎[3]: At Scotia Dental in Halifax, our dentists [...] 6.A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States. 7.A village in Nebraska. 8.A village in New York. 9.A town in South Carolina. [[Interlingua]] ipa :/ˈsko.tsja/[Proper noun] editScotia 1.Scotland [[Latin]] ipa :/ˈskoː.ti.a/[Etymology] editFrom Scōtī (“the Scots people”). [Proper noun] editScōtia f sg (genitive Scōtiae); first declension 1.Scotland Synonym: Calēdonia [[Scots]] [Proper noun] editScotia 1.(poetic) Scotland 0 0 2022/10/18 09:19 2023/10/18 09:07 TaN
50900 pay off [[English]] [See also] edit - pay-off [Verb] editpay off (third-person singular simple present pays off, present participle paying off, simple past and past participle paid off) 1.(transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight. I thought the guards would give us trouble, but apparently he had paid them off. 2.1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games: I had to pay off the judge to get my license back. 3.(intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit. Her years of Spanish classes finally paid off when she found herself in Mexico and realized she could communicate with people. 4.2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC‎[1]: Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post. 5.(transitive) To pay back; to repay. He paid off the loan three months early. 6.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27: What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me. 7.(transitive) To pay back (repay, pay off) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on. This contract requires you to pay off the car by 2025. 8.(nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail. 0 0 2009/04/20 23:09 2023/10/18 09:07 TaN
50901 pay-off [[English]] ipa :/ˈpeɪ.ɒf/[Alternative forms] edit - payoff [Etymology] editpay +‎ off [Noun] editpay-off (plural pay-offs) 1.A payment. 2.A reward. 3.A bribe. 4.(colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction. 5.(baseball) Short for payoff pitch. 0 0 2009/04/20 23:09 2023/10/18 09:07 TaN
50902 pay for [[English]] [Noun] editpay for (plural pay fors) 1.Alternative form of pay-for 0 0 2023/09/25 09:28 2023/10/18 09:08 TaN
50903 pros [[English]] ipa :/pɹəʊz/[Anagrams] edit - PORs, ROPs, RPOs, spor- [Noun] editpros 1.plural of pro [[Czech]] ipa :[ˈpros][Etymology 1] edit [Etymology 2] edit [[French]] [Noun] editpros m or f 1.plural of pro [[Old Occitan]] [Adjective] editpros m or f (plural pros) 1.valiant; chivalrous; knightly 2.13th Century, Guillem Ramon de Gironella, Partiment: d'una pros dona valen of a brave, valliant woman [[Polish]] ipa :/prɔs/[Noun] editpros n 1.genitive plural of proso [[Portuguese]] ipa :/pɾɔs/[Alternative forms] edit - pròs (pre-1990 spelling) [Contraction] editpros m pl 1.(colloquial) Contraction of pra os (“for/to the (masculine plural)”): masculine plural of pro [[Spanish]] [Adjective] editpros m pl or f pl 1.plural of pro [Noun] editpros m pl or f pl 1.plural of pro 0 0 2010/07/16 07:34 2023/10/18 09:09
50904 ever-changing [[English]] [Adjective] editever-changing (not comparable) 1.Alternative form of everchanging. 2.2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 10: Will the May timetable still be introduced? That depends on whether the UK's lockdown measures are lifted before the start date, which (at this time) looks extremely unlikely. With an ever-changing situation and dramatically reduced travel, it seems likely that some changes to timetables will be made, but it is too early to say whether the full timetable will be introduced. [References] edit - “ever-changing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. 0 0 2023/10/18 09:09 TaN
50906 turn out [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - out-turn, outturn [Etymology] editFrom Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn +‎ out.The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”). [See also] edit - come out - crank out - end up - put out - turn - turn away - turn off - turn up - turnout [Verb] editturn out (third-person singular simple present turns out, present participle turning out, simple past and past participle turned out) 1.(intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result. I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better. 2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2: He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. 3.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2021: The thing we’ll all remember is Arya Stark, Supreme Badass Of The Seven Kingdoms. Not Jon Snow, not Daenerys, but the pint-size warrior who spends the first part of the fight just annihilating White Walkers one after the other, then turns out to be the one who deals the killing blow to the Night King. 4.(intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well. I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out. 5.(intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up. Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade. 6.1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23: The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off. 7.(intransitive, dated) To go out; to leave one's home. 8.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press: But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the dog lay. 9.(transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device Turn out the lights before you leave. 10.1854, Dickens, chapter 11, in Hard Times: The day grew strong, and showed itself outside, even against the flaming lights within. The lights were turned out, and the work went on. 11.(intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out It turns out that he just made a lucky guess. 12.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎[2]: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once. 13.2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian: The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist. 14.(transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make. The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day. 15.1942 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VII”, in Railway Magazine, page 44: This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets. 16.(intransitive) To leave a road. Turn out at the third driveway. 17.(transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc. Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it. 18.(transitive) To empty for inspection. Please turn out your pockets. The security guard asked everyone to turn out their bags. 19.(transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict. The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk. The poor family were turned out of their lodgings at only an hour's notice. 20.1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Mary Had a Little Lamb, page 39: And so the teacher turned it out But still it lingered near, And waited patiently about Till Mary did appear. 21.(sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute. 22.2008, Carolyn Maloney, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work. 23.2008, Joseph B. Haggerty, Sr., Shame: The Story of a Pimp, page 361: Like I told you, I'm still turning this one bitch out. […] Sunday is three days away, if you ain't turned her out by then she ain't worth it. 24.2012, Eyes . . . JB, If I Should Die Tonight: The Untold Stories, page 18: The nigga that turned her out was named Derek “Sweets” D. I despised that pimping motherfucker with passion. 25.(sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role. 26.(transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture. 27.(transitive) To convince to vote turn out potential voters 28.(intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike. 29.(intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up. 0 0 2023/10/18 09:09 TaN
50907 out to [[English]] [Phrase] editout to 1.intending to (do a specified action) Jack is out to get you. You'd better hide. The boy who saved a stranger wasn't out to make headlines: he was just being a Good Samaritan. This company doesn't care about consumers, it's just out to make a profit. [References] edit - “out to”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. [See also] edit - out to lunch 0 0 2021/10/07 13:08 2023/10/18 09:09 TaN
50908 out for [[English]] [Verb] editbe out for (third-person singular simple present is out for, present participle being out for, simple past was out for, past participle been out for) 1.To seek or pursue, especially to determinedly pursue something to one's own benefit. He's out for all he can get. The king was out for revenge. 0 0 2022/02/28 11:16 2023/10/18 09:09 TaN
50909 paying [[English]] ipa :/ˈpeɪ.ɪŋ/[Anagrams] edit - pygian [Etymology] editpay +‎ -ing [Noun] editpaying (plural payings) 1.payment 2.1912, Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy: It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable. [Verb] editpaying 1.present participle and gerund of pay 0 0 2021/09/28 19:12 2023/10/18 09:10 TaN
50910 turn-out [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - out-turn, outturn [Noun] editturn-out (plural turn-outs) 1.Alternative form of turnout 0 0 2023/10/18 09:10 TaN
50911 turn to [[English]] [Anagrams] edit - Turton [Verb] editturn to (third-person singular simple present turns to, present participle turning to, simple past and past participle turned to) 1.(said of objects) To become, to turn into. 2.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll. all things turn to dust; iron turns to rust in the presence of air and water 3.To consult for advice or help. When I'm in trouble, I turn to my pastor to help me. 4.To start to do or to use something in an attempt to deal with a difficult and unpleasant situation. Breakups can be incredibly difficult, but one may wish to seek therapy rather than turn to drugs. 5.To direct one's attention or efforts toward something. In 1939 he turned to films in earnest. 6.Used other than figuratively or idiomatically&#x3a; see turn,‎ to. Turn to the left up here. To start my homework, I had to turn to page twenty in my textbook. 0 0 2020/04/13 14:05 2023/10/18 09:10 TaN

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